The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-03-30
WESTERN.

Under the provisions of the recent
act of Congress III regard TO national banks,
Kansas City has been made reserve city.
A frame clearinghouse at the Colby
mine, near Bessemer, Mich, was destroyed
by fire, and twelve men persisted in the flames.
OF nine others, who escaped by jumping from
windows, half dozen were seriously injured.
A dispatch from Bessemer, Mich, gives the
following particulars of the shocking affair:
The building was two-story frame structure,
the first floor containing sitting room, dining
room, kitchen, and two bedrooms, occupied by
Frank Miller and his wife, in management and
two hired girls. The second floor contained
five sleeping-rooms, which were occupied by
twenty-one men, At about o'clock a. m,
Miller was aroused by his wife, and the two, to-
gether with the two girls in the next room,
barely escaped in their night clothes. Several
men leaped from the windows OF the second
story three of them receiving serious injuries.
The complete destruction OF the building was
the work OF but a few minutes after the alarm
was given. The village has no fire department.,
and the building burned without possibility Of
help. As soon as the debris could DO removed
tho work OF exhuming the victims began.
Twelve bodies were found all charred beyond
recognition. From tho list of boarders the
Ryan, John Garvey John Baal, William
Williams, j. Beassa, +. Beassa Henry
saam, Simon Rizzo, Max Priviedle, John
Lyons, John Sutton, one unknown man.
The failure TO escape can only DO attributed
to suffocation, and most of the victims probably
persisted in their beds. The coroners jury ex-
onerate all parties concerned from blame. No
clew to the origin Of the fire could be obtained.
James Lynch, one of the occupants of the place
says that there were four other persons in the
same room with him. He was awakened by a
roommate clambering over him toward the win
dow. The room was full Of smoke and flame at
the time, and he barely succeeded in breaking
open n window, and making his escape. He
jumped to the ground, and received but slig hit
injuries.
Dispatches from the West report
that great suffering and considerable loss of
life have been entaied by the flood in the Up
per Missouri River Bismarck special says:
Reports from remote districts intensity the
stories OF suffering and loss of life. man was
seen riding down the river ON n cake of ice,
frantically calling for help but it was impossi-
BILE TO assist him. Twelve families near
Livonia, after being on the roofs of
their houses for twenty-four hours walk
ed two miles to the shore on n thin crust of
ice that had formed during their imprisonment.
Fort Lincoln officers here believe that the peo-
pie on the lowlands opposite the post perished
in the flood. II is believed at Bowdle, above
Bismarck that several Indians have been
drowned The family of Garrett Barry barely
escaped with their lives, and lost cattle and
housed hold effects. The steamer Gen. Tompkns
is in the ice, total wreck
A Coroner's jury exonerated every
one connected with the Bessemer mich.
boarding house, by the burning Of which
twelve human lives were sacrificed Frank
Miller, the manager, was the only one of the
persons who escaped from the building that
was examined. He explained the arrange
ments of rooms stoves, lamps, etc. A fire was
kept in the front sitting room until after mid
night, when he retired Two boarders had
just come IN and were preparing to retire.
Both of them were drunk. One OF them was
newcomer, who perish3d Mr.. Miller had
no notion how the fire originated, but thought
that il started in the front part of the building,
as his room in the back of the building was
the last to be entered by the flames. He
thought that those who persisted must have
been suffocated in their beds They could
have escaped through the windows.
A Bowdle Cd. To- dispatch says
LAST reports from Legracc and LsBeau say
that great damage has been done by the high
waters Of the Missouri River At LeBeau
people from the bottoms were compelled to
flee to the high bluffs Barthel Olson was on
rescued next day. Jacob Mccarthy, Mr..
Kirkland, and three others we're drowned on
the bottoms south of Legrace. Wilkins q
SINNERS ranch near Jegrace is under several
Feet of water"
Jackson Marion, for the murder OF
John Cameron, fifteen years ago, was hanged
last week at Beatrice, Neb
Near Leetonia, Ohio, o freight train
dashed into the rear Of the Chicago express
which had been stopped for the purpose OF